Archive for: Artists-in-Residence

Carolyn Drake is interested in photography as a medium for reshaping reality and history and is drawn to working in communities whose identities resist domination and authoritative definition. Drake lived in Istanbul for nearly a decade, developing personal projects and working on commissions in Turkey, Ukraine, Central Asia, and China. She returned to the US in 2014 and is now based in Vallejo, California, where she is currently looking at the performance of community in the US—the gendering of space, safety and surveillance, and the role that photography and digital worlds play in seeing and defining ourselves at home. Drake is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lange Taylor Prize, World Press Photo award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Anamorphosis prize, among others. Her independently-published photo books, Two Rivers and Wild Pigeon, received wide acclaim and have been translated as installations, including solo shows at SFMOMA and the Houston Center for Photography. She is a graduate of Brown University and an associate at Magnum Photos.

Jiehao Su’s work is deeply rooted in his personal history. In between reality and imagination, Su deals with the notions of self-identity, homeland, cultural memory, and belonging. While his photos can easily function as artistic and expressive documents they are also the product of a personal journey. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Europe, North America, and Asia, in venues such as Musée du quai Branly (Paris, France), Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece), UNM Art Museum (Albuquerque, USA), QUAD Gallery (Derby, UK), Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich (Belfast, UK), United Photo Industries HQ Gallery (New York, NY), Actual Size (Los Angeles, CA), Galerie zur Schützenlaube (Visp, Switzerland), and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China). Jiehao Su holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He is based in Providence, RI and Beijing, China.

Vasantha Yogananthan lives and works in Paris. In 2014, he co-founded the publishing house Chose Commune and published his first book, Piémanson, which was nominated for MACK First Book Award. In 2015, he was the recipient of the IdeasTap/Magnum Photos Award to help him fund A Myth of Two Souls, a project inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Following the release of Early Times, the first book of this long-term project, Yogananthan was awarded the Prix Levallois 2016. In 2017, he received the ICP Infinity Award Emerging as Emerging Photographer of the Year and has been selected among the FOAM Talents. A Myth of Two Souls will be published in seven photobooks between 2016-2019, one per chapter of the epic. The second chapter, The Promise, was released in April 2017. The third chapter, Exile, will be released in September 2017. Bookmaking and editing are central to Yogananthan’s work and he considers the photobook to be his primary medium for research into original narrative approaches.

Fumi Ishino holds an MFA from Yale University where he was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at The Flag Art Foundation, Fraenkel Gallery, and IMA Gallery. Awards include the Japan Photo Award, 2015, and the Honorable Mention Award from New Cosmos of Photography, 2015. His first book, Rowing a Tertrapod, was published by MACK in the fall of 2018. He is currently living and working in Los Angeles.

Khalik Allah is a New York-based photographer and filmmaker whose work has been described as “street opera.” His photography has been acclaimed by the New York Times, TIME Lightbox, the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Village Voice, the BBC, and the Boston Globe. Since 2012, Allah has been photographing people who frequent the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem. Shooting film at night with only the light pouring from storefront windows, street lights, cars, and flashing ambulances, he captures raw and intimate portraits of “souls against the concrete.” Allah seeks to dispel fears, capture human dignity, and bring clarity to a world that outsiders rarely visit.

Aaron Turner is a photographer and educator currently based in Tivoli, NY and is the founder of Photographers of Color. He uses photography to pursue personal stories of people of color, in two main areas of the U.S., the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas. Aaron also uses the view camera to create still life studies on the topics of race, history, blackness as material, and the role of the black artist. He received an MA in Visual Communication from Ohio University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers. His work has been on view at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Czurles-Nelson Gallery at SUNY Buffalo State, James Kerney Campus Gallery at Mercer County Community College, and the MEDICI Gallery University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s work is rooted in portraiture, elements of storytelling, and homoerotic visual culture. By inserting mirrors and collage-like photographs and staging his friends, partners, and lovers as his subjects, Sepuya investigates the role of the studio as a social environment. He received his MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2016 and a BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. Sepuya’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; and the Artist Institute, New York. Public collections featuring Sepuya’s work include Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Paul Mpagi Sepuya currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Justine Kurland is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. A lifelong nomad, Kurland takes photographs during cross-country journeys that reveal the double-edged nature of the American dream. Kurland received her BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 1996 and her MFA from Yale University in 1998. Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums and galleries across the US and abroad. Museum exhibitions have included Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2009) and Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. (2009). Her work is in the public collections of institutions including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and the ICP, New York; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. Kurland lives and works in New York, NY.

Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer from Bor living in Narrm Melbourne. Born in Ethiopia she spent her first years in a Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp before moving to Australia as a child. Atem’s photos explore the experiences of young immigrants, and how they knit together the different cultures that surround them. Her work explores migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and identity through portraiture. Atem’s distinctive artistic practice combines both photography and hand painting, incorporating bold color and pattern inspired by her South Sudanese background. Atong Atem studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts in 2012 before furthering her studies at RMIT. Her work has been featured in i-D and Okayafrica and was recently exhibited at The Brisbane Powerhouse Museum, where she won the inaugural MELT Portrait Prize.

Preston Gannaway is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary and fine art photographer. She is best known for her long-term projects like Remember Me, which chronicled a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness and was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Her work has also been honored by Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, Critical Mass, American Photography and Communication Arts. She’s been supported by grants from the Chris Hondros Fund Award, The Documentary Project Fund, NPPA, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Born and raised in North Carolina, she now lives in Oakland, California. Gannaway’s first book, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, was released in 2014.

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